Democracy Quotes - Page 82

democracy produces both heroes and villains, but it differs from a fascist state in that it does not produce a hero who is a villain.

Democracy makes many taxing demands on its practitioners, but suspension of the intelligence is not one of them.

I think what we need to do is understand our number one obligation is to act in the national interest of the United States of America. I believe it is in our national interest to see democracy take hold on the island of Cuba. And so we examine our foreign policy, including all the changes that President Obama made, in that lens and through that lens.

As the largest and most developed democracies of Asia (India and Japan), we have a mutual stake in each other's progress and prosperity.

India has remained a full, functioning democracy.

Democracies don't go to war.

India is a functioning democracy despite its extreme poverty, India has stayed the course.

Democracy is good for everybody.

Working together in helping nascent democracies in the task of reconstruction, in the task of development is another area where our two countries [India and the USA] can work together.

You may hate Hillary Clinton and you may have good reason for hating Hillary Clinton, but Hillary Clinton is one person who even if she's elected will be gone one day and you still have the task of keeping American democracy going.

Democracy to me is letting the other person speak and being dissenting without being disagreeable.

No perfect democracy is possible without perfect nonviolence at the back of it.

The line of demarcation between democracy and monocracy is often thin, but rigid and stronger than unbreakable steel.

Islam was nothing if it did not spell complete democracy.

In the days of democracy there is no such thing as active loyalty to a person. You are, therefore, loyal or disloyal to institutions.

Democracy demands patient instruction on it before legislation.

Democracy can only represent the average if not less than the average.

The voice of the people may be said to be God's voice, the voice of the Panchayat.

Will Great Britain have an unwilling India dragged into war or a willing ally co-operating with her in the prosecution of a defence of true democracy?

The truest test of a democracy is in the ability of anyone to act as he likes, so long as he does not injure the life or property of anyone else.

In a true democracy of India, the unit is the village.

The science of nonviolence can alone lead one to pure democracy.

Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy.

A democratic organization has to dare to do the right at all costs.

Performance of one's duties should be independent of public opinion.